What's
the big deal?
- Cheating
is
a serious
offense. It interferes with the learning process.
- Cheating
damages your reputation
with your teacher and your classmates—and, more importantly, it
damages your faith
in your own abilities.
- Consequences for cheating can
significantly alter your course grade, especially if you have to take a
zero on a test or quiz.
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What
is cheating?
Cheating
takes
two basic forms:
- A
person can take information from another without that
person’s knowledge OR
- A person
can give information to another person.
- In
the former case, only one person is guilty. In the latter, both people
are
guilty.
- Knowledge obtained by cheating can be passed verbally
(whispering the
answer to someone, telling someone about a quiz that he or she has not
taken
yet) or physically (showing someone your test,
calculator, or homework
/ writing answers on your hand, etc.).
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What
is the consequence?
Mrs.
Jensen will discuss the issue with the student. The student will
receive a zero for that
task and a detention. Parents will be contacted. Other school
discipline may apply. |
Some
good academic advice ...
- Please
be smart. Avoid being in
circumstances that arouse suspicion.
- Keep your eyes on your own
paper,
and be
certain your work cannot be seen by others.
- Don’t ever “loan” your work
(that
you worked very hard to complete) to a classmate.
- Do not discuss test
or quiz
questions with students who have yet to take that assessment. It is not
fair to
you or the other students who have already studied hard and completed
the
test/quiz.
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